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Definition of Genus Impatiens
1. Noun. Annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent; cosmopolitan except for South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Group relationships: Balsam Family, Balsaminaceae, Family Balsaminaceae
Member holonyms: Celandine, Impatiens Capensis, Jewelweed, Lady's Earrings, Orange Balsam, Touch-me-not
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Impatiens
Literary usage of Genus Impatiens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"BALSAM, flowering plants of the genus Impatiens, of which numerous species occur
in India and China. Towards the close of the rains, the whole of the ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"ANNA HALL RAITT University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio • The genus Impatiens
is represented chiefly in Asia, where in 1860 a collection of 100 species ..."
3. First book of Indian botany by Daniel Oliver (1869)
"Thus, we refer all the species of Balsam to the genus Impatiens, and of Fig to
the genus Ficus. In this way we have genera (plural of genus) including often ..."
4. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"genus Impatiens IMPATIENS (Latin, impatient, in allusion to the irritable
seed-capsules). A genus of about one hundred and thirty-five species of herbaceous ..."
5. Analytical Class-book of Botany: Designed for Academies and Private Students by Frances Harriet Green, Joseph W. Congdon (1857)
"A small and unimportant order of succulent plants, but affording many ornamental
flowers. The genus Impatiens contains the (larden Balsamine, and two nativo ..."
6. Genera Florae Americae Boreali-orientalis Illustrata: The Genera of the by Asa Gray (1849)
"Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. 2. p. 136, & Veg. Kingd. p. 490. THE BALSAM or JEWEL-WEED
FAMILY comprises only the large genus Impatiens, Linn., ..."
7. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1840)
"A very interesting quotation is given from a paper on the genus Impatiens, written
by Dr. Wight, which appeared in the ..."
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